StumbleAudio (2 million+ music tracks to discover) » Social Networking Blog - SociableBlog.com. The rise of the participation culture. Building Communities with Software. By Joel Spolsky Monday, March 03, 2003 The social scientist Ray Oldenburg talks about how humans need a third place, besides work and home, to meet with friends, have a beer, discuss the events of the day, and enjoy some human interaction.
Coffee shops, bars, hair salons, beer gardens, pool halls, clubs, and other hangouts are as vital as factories, schools and apartments ["The Great Good Place", 1989]. But capitalist society has been eroding those third places, and society is left impoverished. In "Bowling Alone," Robert Putnam brings forth, in riveting and well-documented detail, reams of evidence that American society has all but lost its third places. So it's no surprise that so many programmers, desperate for a little human contact, flock to online communities - chat rooms, discussion forums, open source projects, and Ultima Online. In software, as in architecture, design decisions are just as important to the type of community that develops or fails to develop. Q. A. Q. A. Why? Q. » A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web. Preempting the Data Sharing Summit (kicking off tomorrow) which aims to address the issue of interoperability between social networks, Marc Canter and co. have published the first draft of a proposed Bill of Rights for participants on the social Web.
The idea of the "bill" is to push forward an agenda which gives users of social networking sites and other social web services, a core set of rights in terms of who owns their data, and what can be done with it. We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically: Ownership of their own personal information, including: their own profile datathe list of people they are connected tothe activity stream of content they create;Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; andFreedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.
The Bill continues: Related post: 'Do ordinary users care about data portability? 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network. The news may overflow with stories about the social networking giants, such as Facebook and MySpace, but a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities.
These up-and-coming companies provide so-called “white label” social networking platforms that enable their customers to build their own social networks (often from scratch) and to tailor those networks to a range of purposes. The idea of white labeling a network is to make the platform provider as invisible as possible to the social network’s users and to brand the network with the builder’s identity or intent. While definitions of “social networking” may vary, social networks are primarily defined by member profiles and some sort of user generated content. There are roughly three types of companies that have emerged in the space of white label social networking.
More details on each are below. Ning KickApps KickApps’s advertising scheme is particularly unique. CrowdVine. UCINET 6 Social Network Analysis Software. Web 1-2-3. I’m often asked what “Web 3.0” will be about.
Lately, i have found myself talking about two critical stages of web sociality in order to explain where we’re going. I realized that i never succinctly described this here so i thought i should. In early networked publics, there were two primary organizing principles for group sociability: interests and activities. People came together on rec.motorcylcles because they shared an interest in motorcycles. People also came together in work groups to discuss activities. By and large, these were strangers meeting. As blogging began to take hold, people started arranging themselves around pre-existing friend groups.
When i think about what’s next, i don’t think it’s going more virtual, more removed from everyday life. I believe that geographic-dependent context will be the next key shift. The internet was not made for social communities. Unfortunately, the same is not true for the mobile network. (Conversation at Apophenia) The Emergence and Rise of Mass Social Media @ JAVA DEVELOPER. Blackwell Synergy: Political Psychology, Vol 19, Issue 3: Table. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLICY RESEARCH. Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet C. Blog Archive » What is Social Media?